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The United Kingdom’s Wellcome Trust awards the university’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics (KIE) and other institutions a £1.2 million grant to provide advice on the health interests of pregnant women with the Zika virus.

Recent raids by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have a chilling effect on the education of recently arrived children, according to a report by Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute (HRI) and the Women’s Refugee Commission.

School of Foreign Service Professor Elżbieta M. Goździak publishes Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States, the first book of its kind based on empirical research and focused solely on survivors of child trafficking in America.

Sesame Workshop, the organization behind Sesame Street, selects Georgetown and Children’s National Health System researchers to lead an evaluation of an initiative designed to reduce stigma and build understanding about autism spectrum disorder.

Veteran communications strategist Jon Haber, an instructor for the public relations and corporate communications program, says presidential primary voters are angry, fearful and frustrated, and they now have more ways to tweet, post, share and disseminate their feelings.

Georgetown University Medical Center professor Timothy J. Jorgensen talks about how radiation exposure affected the plant workers at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, five years after the nuclear accident.